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ADVERTISING APPARATUS.

No. 500,939. Patented July 4, 1893.

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T; oBBINsoN. ADVERTISING APPARATUS.

No. 500,939., Patented Ju1y`4, 1893.-

Umrrnn STATES PATENT Ormea.

THOMAS OBBIN SON, OF MELBOURNE, VICTORIA.

ADVERTISING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 500,939, dated July 4,1893.

Application filed April 29,1892. Serial No. 431,3 70. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Beitknown thatI, THOMAS OBBINsON,agent, a citizen of Melbourne, asubject of the Queen of Great Britain, and a resident of Mentone, nearMelbourne, in the Oolony of Victoria, have invented a certain new anduseful Apparatus for Distributing Advertisements, Tickets, or Cards, ofwhich the following isa speciiication.

This invention has been devised for the purpose of providing aconvenient, and, at the same time, a popular means of distributingadvertisement cards at a moderate cost while on the other hand thepublic is rewarded for its trouble in noticing such advertisements byhaving some desired information given to it in return.

The invention consists in an improved machine or apparatus for holdingcards, tickets, or advertiseing cards. The method of advertising whichcan be carried out by this machine consists in having cards with, say, arailway time-table printed on a portion of their surface and attractiveadvertisements printed on theremainingportion thereof, and placed inpacks in the machine or apparatus so that in pulling a particular knobone of the cards will be ejected from the apparatus so that it may betaken away by the operator.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification Figurel. is a front View of the pedestal box showing an arrangement of spacesset apart for particular sets of cards and their pull-knobs, and alsoshowing the spare portions of the surface arranged to contain xedadvertisements. Fig. 2. shows an internal section of the said pedestaland its internal mechanism. Fig. 3. is a sectional detail view of one ofthe operating card boxes, and Fig. 4. a plan of such box. an enlargedsectional view of one ot' the operating card boxes while a card is beingtaken out of same by an operator.

In the drawings A is an upright pedestal box on the face of which isarranged a series of knobs B, each knob having a separate box O to itsown particular set of cards, and the whole of such boxes being set in ahinged frame D centeredat D (see Fig. 2). This said hinged frame can belowered to the dotted position, shown on the drawings, which will allowthe attendant to charge the Fig. 5. showsV is not taken up by the cardboxes C may l be divided into spaces for any desired advertisements.These spaces are marked F.

I would now direct attention to Figs. 3,4 and 5 which show the operativemechanism for removing a card, and in which G is the card. B is thepull-knob to which is attached a rod B around which is encircled aspiral spring in a state of compression. Attached to the other end ofthesaid rod B" is a small sliding blockH of wood, or other material, whichvis grooved to slide horizontally backward and forward along metal guideplates or rails H arranged on either side for the purpose (see Fig. 5).On top, and at the end of, the said sliding block H is afxed asmallwedge shaped thumb piece of india-rubber f H2 which is set in suchamanner that on the forward motion of the sliding block l-I the thumbpiece H2 pushes the card G forward (as shown in Fig. 5), and when thelingers of the operator loosen their hold on knob B the latter with theblock and the said thumb-piece H2 slide backwardinto a recess L Theoperator maythen pull out the projecting card G which ac-V tion willallow the pack of cards K to fall, the bottom one now occupying theposition just vacated by the withdrawn card. The pack will then beresting upon the two supporting limitation plates of metal Lf7 and thethumb piece H2 will be again ready to push forward the bottom card. (SeeFig. 3).

The modus operandi' of my invention is as followszuPresume that a personis at a railway station or other public place and desires to know whenthe next train leaves for say Pau. He may step u p to the machine, andon pulling the knob B under the word Pau and then releasing the saidknob he will find a card produced (as shown on Fig. 5) and on removingsuch card will find the IOO 1 thereon.

I am aware of United States Patent to Austin, No. 256,534, dated April18, 1882, and to what is therein shown and described I lay no claim.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of oursaid'inventiona'nd in what manner the same is to be performed,

I declare that what I claim is- An apparatusY for distributing cards,tickets, or advertisements, consisting ofa case provided witha'freceptacle for holding cards and' havinga discharge outlet in the frontopposite the lowest card, a slide moving in side guides and arrangedbelow said receptacle and outlet and provided with a rubber thumb pieceor pusher having an inclined rear face which lthumb, piece in its normalposition rests behind thelowest card in the card receptacle, a rod foroperating said slide provided with a Eknob' extending outside of thecase, and a springsurrounding said rod for retracting the same,substantially as described.

In* witnesswhereof I have hereunto set my 'hand in presence of twowitnesses.

THOS. OBBINSON. Witnesses:

A. O. SAoHsE,

0. E., Melbourne, C.' W'. WADE,

Assistant 150A. O. Sachse, GIE.

